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Author: Charis
last update publish date: 2026-04-13 13:27:39

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~Aria~

I woke up before six.

It was not nerves exactly. It was more like my body had already decided the day mattered before my mind caught up. Staying in bed after that felt pointless. There were things to do, and I wanted to be present for them.

My father’s birthday.

I lay there for a moment, staring at the ceiling, thinking about the letter I had left on his desk. I wondered if he had found it yet. If he had opened it. Knowing him, he would take his time. He always did with things that
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  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0110

    0110~Aria~The ceiling was unfamiliar.That was the first thing I noticed.I lay there on my back, still and slightly disoriented, my head pounding in a slow, steady rhythm. For a few seconds, I did not know where I was or how I got there. Everything felt distant, like I was waking up from something heavy.I stayed still.Let it come back on its own.The ceiling. Clean. Neutral. The kind of space that felt expensive without trying too hard. The sheets were soft, the pillow smelled like fresh linen, not mine. Light filtered through curtains that were not mine either.Then the rest followed.The club.The drinks. Too many.Josie.The music. The lights. The way everything blurred at the edges.And then the words.The things I said.I closed my eyes for a second, then opened them again slowly.Pierre’s apartment.Of course.A quiet kind of embarrassment settled in my chest.I had said all of that to Pierre.I lay there without moving, replaying fragments. Not everything, just enough to f

  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0109

    0109~Luca~Marco had the estate camera footage up in four minutes.That was all it took from my call to him standing beside me in the security room, the monitor glowing in the dark, both of us watching in silence as Aria Santoro climbed out of her window at two thirty in the morning.There was something in the way she moved. Not hesitation. Not fear.Determination.I watched her pause and look around, careful, alert, taking everything in like she was making sure no one would stop her.Then I saw it.The side gate.She knew.She had known about it, known exactly where to go, exactly how to leave without being seen. She crossed the grounds quickly, reached the street, and got into a car that was already waiting for her.The footage cut there. The estate boundary.Marco looked at me.I kept my eyes on the screen, on the empty stretch of road where she had disappeared.“She planned it,” he said.No judgment in his voice. Just a statement.“Yes,” I said.There was no point denying it.She

  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0108

    0108~Pierre~Landon had been asking me to go out for three days.Not in a pushy way. That wasn’t him. Just steady. He mentioned it once, then again, then casually brought it up whenever the moment allowed until it stopped feeling like a suggestion and more like something inevitable."One evening," he said. "That’s all. No commitment. Just show up.""I’m fine," I told him."You’ve said that four times this week," he replied, "and none of them sounded convincing."He wasn’t wrong. And I didn’t have the energy to argue with accuracy.So I got dressed, put on a jacket, and went.---The club was exactly the kind of place Landon liked. Good music, just loud enough, the right crowd, the kind of energy that made a Friday night feel like it had earned itself.He already had people there. Familiar faces. Not close friends, but enough to sit with, talk to, exist around without effort. That kind of company where no one expects anything from you.I was there.At least physically.I had a drink,

  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0107

    0107~Joan~The look on her face had been worth everything.I had replayed it at least forty times since the night of the party, and it still didn’t get old. Yes, call me mad if you want, I don’t care. That exact moment, the word landing, the slight crack in her composure. Just enough. Just where I wanted it.Right in the chest.Aria Santoro, shaken.Worth every minute of planning. Worth the drive. Worth the luggage. Worth standing out in the cold waiting for the convoy to come through the gates, timing everything down to the second with Isabella beside me and everything exactly where it needed to be.She stood there in that beautiful gown and took it. I watched the ground shift under her feet.I won’t lie. It was satisfying. The most satisfying thing I’ve felt in a long time.Serves her right.Thinking she could walk into a life and take whatever she wanted. Step into Luca’s orbit with her Harvard degree, her CEO title, her father’s name, and assume everything in that space was open

  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0106

    0106~Luca~ Sleep had not been an option.I had tried. Laid on the bed, stared at the ceiling, closed my eyes, waited for my brain to cooperate. It didn’t. After an hour, I gave up and sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the wall.Three days.Three days of watching her move through the house and the office, deliberately avoiding everyone. Everyone in the house. Even her own father. All caused by me. Three days of her eyes passing over me instead of landing on me. Three days of the professional version of herself like she was relating with her bodyguard and not Luca.One-word responses, nods that said received and nothing else. She was entirely right to do so. But it was destroying me.I had let my Aria slip through my fingers.I had done this. That was the thought I kept circling back to. Not Joan. Not timing. Not circumstances. Me.My decision to wait for the right moment. My certainty that I could manage the situation. I didn't think it through, I didn't know it was going to blo

  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0105

    0105~Aria~The shower helped.Not like it fixed me. Nothing about the water could fix what had happened. But for eight minutes, standing under the hot stream, I felt like a person who wasn’t carrying the weight of the past four days. Like I could breathe without the edges of every hurt pressing against me.I stepped out and faced the mirror.Tired eyes. Jaw set from holding everything in place for three days.No. Not tonight.Tonight I would take the hurt, the anger, the misery of lying awake at three a.m. over a sentence that never got lighter, and I would put it somewhere it couldn’t reach me for a while. I had earned that.I dried my hair properly, giving it attention for the first time in days. I did my makeup, not the office version, but me. Darker. More deliberate.Then I opened the wardrobe.Nothing club-ready except one black dress at the back, sitting untouched since Boston. Short, sharp, the kind of dress that waits for its moment. Tonight was its moment.I slipped it on.T

  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0043

    0043~Aria~Pierre.I let the name sit for a second. Just a second."Interesting name," I said.He raised an eyebrow slightly. Still with that unhurried quality, like the supermarket aisle and everything in it was operating on his schedule rather than anyone else's."And yours?" he asked. "Or shoul

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  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0021

    0021~ Aria ~The words hung between us, heavy and intoxicating, making every nerve ending in my body light up with anticipation. I could already feel myself getting wet, my body responding to the dark promise in his voice with embarrassing immediacy.Yes. God, yes.But then his expression shifted.

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  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0013

    0013~ Aria ~I woke up sore.Not the pleasant, lingering ache of a good workout, but the deep, bone-deep soreness that came from being bent into impossible positions and fucked with relentless intensity. My thighs protested when I shifted in bed. My hips felt bruised. And there was a tenderness be

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  • Forbidden Never Felt This Good   0007

    0007 ~ Luca ~In my adjoining room, I paced like a caged animal.This was insane. All of it. I was supposed to be controlled, professional, above base urges.Instead, I was completely obsessed with my boss's daughter. Couldn't think straight when she was near. And tomorrow night, I'd have to watch

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